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Shakespeare now got into trouble with Sir
Thomas Lucy by killing some of Lucy's deer,
and Writing poem about it, which he nailed
to the gate. rs a result of this incident, he
resolved to 90 away from StratfOrd.
He said that the place was not big enough
for Sir Thomas and himself, and as Sir Thorn
as had Il great many ties to bind him to the
place while he had nothing but his little fam
ilv and a shawl strap. he thought it would be
better that he should 90 away. He, therefore,
went to London. On his arrival he found that
ne had brought the shawl strap, but had over
looked his family.
He soon got a situation in the theatre at
London He first appeared on the English
stage with roll Of carpet under his arm, and
proceeded to fjlsten it down. 1t was custom
airy at that time to nail the stage carpet down
with tacks, and while doing 50 the great bard
knocked of the nail Of his favOrite thumb.
He then burst forth into an improlnptu tor
rent of passion so realistic that he was greeted
with applause and an encore, whereupon he
anne forward and knocked off the other
rhuEb nail with great Success.
He now began to write plays daytimes and
act out on the stage nights to crowded houses.
He was q poor penman, but soon learned to
write well and rapidly, after which he was
.ngaged by Sir Francis Bacon to do some
writing for him. Shakespeare is said to have
,layed the Ghost in his own Hamlet" though
:hs is not yet fully established. After play
ing one-night stands for a few weeks, and
oming home with Hamlet's feet tied up in
lhe graveyard scene, and Ophelias toes stick
ing out of her shoes, William no doubt
looked like a man who had been playing
host and this, no doubt, was the origin of
he report
Venus and AdOnis" was one of the finest
poems written by Mr. Shakespeare He took
it to the editor OF The Stratford Appeal, who
printed it in order to encourage him, sent
Shakespeare the paper year free, and told
him that, should any other item of news come
his way he wished that he would send it in.
Shakespeare wrote d large number of plays,
III of which were well received. though he
never got a just remuneration for his work
Could he have received royalty on his plays
UP TO the present time, he could have spent
his summers by the side of the sounding sea
down by the shiinmering, sunlit sea.
1t Is singular that Shakespeare should have
written so well when we stop to consider
that he did not strive for fame. He did not
seem to banker for fame at all He wrote
lis plays just as the Circus man of to-day
rites his gorgeous posters, simply to order,
and yet Shakespeare will be quoted and re-
produced centuries after the pictures of the
hippopotamus, with the large red mouth,
mall have passed into oblivion.
But there is a lesson in the life of William
hakespeare. While we cannot indorse his
manner OF going to London in a brown study.
and forgetting to take his family with him,
we must admire the truth and strength shown
i'll his works, and, above all, his grit and per-
severance. All men are created for some
place in the great economy of nature, and
they are largely successful or unsuccessful as
they drop into, or fail to drop into, that
place. We realize this when we see a man
cross-questioning his superiors on the witness
stand, or talking jury into general debility.
when hd ought to be a janitOr at the pound
We realize it every day when we see round
men in square holes, and square men in
round holes.
Shakespeare died il 1910, leaving a wonder
,Ul dramatic monument by which to Dal.netu
tie his name, and an autograph which looks
ike the rise and fall of Billy Patterson.
Shakespeares dust lies buried in front of
The chancel Of S,ratford church: but. to use
the words of a more modern poet. his soul
goes marching on. He was great ENGLISH
man, and | respect him all the more because
he refrained from riding through America ON
a night train, and then writing book en-
titled: The United States of america. IFS
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